Well after reading your question, I couldn't remember all the sordid details myself, so I had to wikipedia it to refresh my memory. So apparently the main purpose of the Watergate breakin was to steal information for the upcoming election. While they were in there they stole a whole bunch of cash from the DNC slush fund. After all the criminal activity was tallied up, the final toll was a total of 42 people in the Nixon camp tent were convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors, and Nixon was forced to resign in disgrace, the first american president in history to ever have done so.